It’s time to look again at Acton

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A two-bedroom period conversion on Valetta Road is on the market for £425,000 with Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward

Francesca Steele

Published at 12:01AM, February 8 2013

The overlooked district of Acton is catching up with its chic neighbours, and the cappuccino crowd are eyeing it up

It may have more stations than any other place in the capital, but Acton in
West London has long played second fiddle to its more stylish neighbours,
Chiswick and Ealing. However, a spate of new developments, from townhouses
to hundreds of affordable housing units, looks set finally to put what was
once a laundry hotspot (due to the soft local water) on the map. As one
agent puts it: “At the moment you still have to go to Chiswick to get a
decent cappuccino. But things are definitely changing.”